Well I have been pretty busy with other wild projects as of late…actually really only one project, this little man. All those cliches about having a kid, well they are true. But I haven’t abandoned the WildWood, we will be back and more frequent starting soon enough. In the meantime if you want you can find us on Instagram #WildNoah. Hope y’all are having a grand summer.

Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail, Cleveland Museum of Art

Charles Leander Weed, an American photographer from upstate NY, was best known for being the first person to document what is now Yosemite National Park in photographs. In the summer of 1859 he traveled to Yosemite with James Hutchings, an entrepreneur and early promoter of Yosemite Valley. On this trip Weed captured the first images of Yosemite, which were exhibited in San Franciso and published in a book called Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California.

If you’re going hunting this season here are some helpful lessons to remember in order to bring yourself back alive.

Shooting from a car is not only unlawful in most states, but also unsportsmanlike and very dangerous.

Don’t put a loaded gun in a car at anytime, and even if you think the gun is unloaded don’t point it at yourself like this Nimrod is doing.

This man is using his gun as a lever to pry up some logs. Used in this fashion, gun is excellent lever for lifting yourself into eternity.

“Look ma no hands,” this man will soon be saying, “Look ma no head either.”

The question raised in this photo seems to be which of these two hunters will last the longest. Each has his gun pointed at the other.After examining the photo, we’re betting the man in the checkered shirt will be the first to go.

Guns make comfortable but unsafe leaning posts. This guy will keep dust out of the barrel but may put holes in the hunter.

This public service announcement brought to you by Popular Mechanics, circa June 1951

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed… We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.” – Wallace Stegner